By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves s…

Henry Charles Carey
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By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people. ✨ Henry Charles Carey (1853). The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign: Why it Exists, and how it May be Extinguished, p.392
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